First Quarter
August Course Introduction: Significance of
Language
from Look
Homeward Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
from Doors
of Perception ( Aldous Huxley)
August Grounds of the Argument: Everything
is an Argument
The Power of Myth and our Value
System
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha: Summer
Reading
Story of the Land Device (essay)
Syntax: Form follows Function (essay)
September Personal Narrative:
from “The Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass”
“We’re Poor” (Floyd Dell)
“Salvation” (Langston Hughes)
“The Sky is Grey” (Ernest Gaines)
In-class: Forrester’s “My Wood” or Gary
Soto Prompt
September Tone:
“Deer Hunting 1” and “Deer Hunting 2”
October
Nine Weeks Exam: Paddy Clarke Prompt
Second Quarter
October The Metamorphosis (Franz
Kafka)
Nabokov
on Franz Kafka
5
Arguments/5 Approaches/5 Theses
Archetypal
Existential
Formalist
Psychological
Sociological
Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain
October Inman’s Journey in Cold Mountain
The
Departure (Campbell)
2
Independent Studies : Choice of Topic (essay)
Chapter Analysis/Rhetorical
Strategies
October/Nov. Inman’s Journey
Trials
and /Victories (Campbell)
November Inman’s Journey
Return with the Boon (Campbell)
Argument: Redemption after death (Buchanan)
Vs.
Redemption before death (Campbell)
Cold Mountain Visual Presentation
AP Multiple Choice Practice/Charting
Results
In-class:
Ellen Goodman’s “The Company Man”
December AP
Test Simulation - 3 in-classes
50 Multiple Choice
Third Quarter
January “The Work-Through” Essay
Practice:
Thomas Carlyle’s essay “Work”
In-class:
Letter on his mother’s death (Shaw)
Political
Language and Discourse
Colonialism
and Political Documents
In-class:
Spencer’s Eulogy on Lady Diana or
Bronwen Dickey’s Tribute to James Dickey
Heart
of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Leopold
and Belgium Colonialism
Conrad
vs. Marlow
January Chapter 1: Absurdity:
Smallness of man vs. Immensity of Universe
Foreshadowing
Chart
Sarcasm
Personification
of Jungle
Biblical,
historical, and mythological allusions
Perception
of Victorian Woman
Jan./Feb Chapter 3: Absurdity of
Kurtz
Kurtz
as a Hollow Man
Essay
Topics: Absurdity in the novel;
Light
vs. Dark: A Study of Language
February “The Hollow Men” with Sustained
Allusion
Significance
of Organization/Language
In
class: Allusion Enhances Meaning of a Work
“A Modest Proposal”: The Classical Argument
A
Study in Satire
Sample
Classical Argument
February Persuasive
Techniques: Rhetorical modes
Personal Narration
Description
Example
Comparison/Contrast
Division/Classification
Causal Analysis
Feb./March Toulmin Modern Argument
Argument
Terminology
March Inherit the Wind: A Study in
Argument
Purple
Patch; Word Play
Clinton Speech
AP Terms
March In-class: Coca Cola Argument
April Return of the Native (or Frankenstein)
Heath
as an agent of fate
Man
vs. Environment
The
Tangled Web
Author’s
Style
Reading
in Depth
Vocabulary
April In-class: Comparison/Contrast
Marriage
Proposals (Dickens)
Galapagos
Islands
May AP 5 Day Review Plan
Hamlet: Imagery
Final Exam: One of three essay topics